Episode 1: This One Is Worse
Length: 1:06:34
Following in the exciting trend of last episode's bad audio, Ryan and Steve manage to botch another recording, leaving Ryan's half surprisingly poor and prone to sputtering out when Steve tries to talk over him (which is constant).
Steve is somewhat ill and mentally unfocused and Ryan is tired, leading to a much more serious, less collected, and much more rambling podcast, mostly focusing on Thulu!, an adventure for the Pathfinder system, and an overview on roleplaying in general, focusing heavily on our scattered thoughts about Dungeons & Dragons through its various editions.
Due to the original recording taking nearly two hours and half an hour of stammering, going on tagents, and plenty of technical issues having to have been excised at great personal strain to Ryan, the originally-planned topic of the Caligula comic has to be pushed off to our next (much shorter and more focused) episode, to be followed by a full episode of rambling nonsense about Hellraiser in its various forms.
For those who are deeply interested in two idiots' thoughts on roleplaying games, you'll get to hear about the following:
- Introductions:
- Re-introduction to our hosts, who tend to be themselves...
- Or they might be Manuel Noriega and Nancy Reagan
- Find Ryan at RyanSpeck.com (assuming some bastard Russians haven't hacked the site again)
- And find Steve at Diary Of A Grognerd or here on MediaGauntlet
- This Week In Ryan & Steve (2:35)
- Steve's weekend at GottaCon
- Style 'n' Print: home of the bootleg T-shirt
- The Thing (2011)
- In Bruges
- End Of Days
- The Devil's Advocate
- Spoilers abound in everything we talk about... Steve suggests you "grow a pair"
- The Thing (1982)
- Outlander
- Ghost Rider
- Dragonlance: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight
- Robin Tunney
- Layer Cake
- Se7en
- A Boy And His Dog
- Did we mention the spoilers?
- Colin Farrell
- Ryan mentions Tigerland, but you can't hear it because of the poor audio
- Danny Dyer (looking at this is easier than listening to Steve tell you about it for the 5 minutes that got edited out)
- Severence
- The Trench
- Mean Machine
- Outlaw
- The Football Factory
- "Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men"
- Hellraiser (coming soon to a long-winded podcast near you; though not next week, probably 2 weeks)
- Clive Barker
- Cabal
- Weaveworld
- The Hellbound Heart
- Coil
- Hellraiser: Inferno
- Thulu! (15:08)
- Postmortem Studios
- Pathfinder
- Zulu
- The Battle Of Rorke's Drift
- Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy
- Traveller
- Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 (Why am I linking this stuff? Who doesn't know this?)
- Cthulhu
- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
- Us mistakenly calling Albion "Avalon" (most of which was cut out anyway)
- The Open Game License
- An idiotic and completely arbitrary, off-the-cuff rating system based on mouths and fists
- Vampire: The Masquerade
- White Wolf Games
- Ryan says "I hate Vampire", not that you can understand him
- He also calls White Wolf writers "Bohemian shitheads"
- Kevin Siembieda
- Bill Coffin
- Erick Wujcik
- Dungeons & Dragons through the ages: two idiots talk about a game they don't really play (32:00)
- D&D 5th Edition?
- Ryan & Steve's backgrounds in roleplaying, particularly regarding D&D
- White Dwarf
- Oriental Adventures
- Steve Saunders: rule-breaker
- "Know your group, know your shit, and know your limitations"
- Monster Manual
- Deities & Demigods
- Games Workshop
- The D&D Red Box
- Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game
- The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe
- Call Of Cthulhu
- Chill
- GURPS
- Palladium
- Steve's autism self-diagnosis
- d20
- Spycraft
- Fantasy Craft
- The Black Company
- Waterdeep
- Ryan's history of never playing D&D
- Rules Cyclopedia
- "And you are not a Nazi... to the best of my knowledge."
- The World Of Synnibarr
- Cyborg Commando
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
- Ninjas & Superspies
- Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game
- Robotech
- Rifts
- Nightbane
- RPG.net
- Dead Reign
- Penny Arcade 4th Edition Actual Play Podcasts (more amusing than this podcast)
- Dark Sun
- Gamma World
- Dark Future
- Chainsaw Warrior
- Fighting Fantasy
- Gothic
- Skyrim
- Gaming is a pyramid scheme
- Skateboarding is a fucking hobby
- I Hit It With My Axe
- Satine Phoenix
- Standard Action
- The Guild
- Blackberry PlayBook
- Steve Saunders: gaming hippie
- Cyberpunk 2020
- Labyrinth Lord
- Rolemaster is heroin
- But so is Hero System
- Closing (1:03:32)
- Steve wants to talk about The Thing (2011)
- Next time: Caligula
- Then maybe Robocop: Road Trip, Hellraiser, Warhammer, Palladium, "Burn Notice" sucking, Chronicles Of Riddick, and Valiant Comics sometime in the next two years
- Tales of Editing's Future Past
- Event Horizon and Terrence Malick references
- Steve's mind wanders again
...All this and more! (Though fortunately 30 minutes less than you could have heard if Ryan hadn't spent 7 hours editing down this piece of shit.)
Another warning: This podcast is not safe for children or adults. Do not expose pregnant woman to this podcast. Maybe just don't listen to it at all.
You can find Steve at Diary Of A Grognerd and Ryan at RyanSpeck.com, as per usual.
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